So it's the second day of Bakemonogatari theming and for the most part, the background is actually pretty close to complete. There is still the issue of the plants near the bottom and the actual looping, but otherwise it turned out decently.
In terms of actual discussion though, there isn't much on that topic. I did give some tools from photoshop a try (the patch and spot heal brush tools) in order to assist in removing Senjougahara's existence from the picture. Patch in particular was helpful, though not all that different from what I could have done with GIMP. If there were one plus the patch tool had was that the GIMP method would have required some smudging and other tricks beyond just a copy paste whereas the PS tool had an algorithm to do that part (not that it always did well at it :/). Other than that, I remade a lot of the fence to hide the mess and I'll still need to mess with it in order to make the fence loop properly.
On the topic of looping, I also need to work on the clouds to make them loop as well which should be...fairly simple actually. Much more so than the tweaks I'm planning to do to the fence to make ends meet.
With the background aside, I am still planning on going ahead with the folder icon shirt, and the icon background will probably be a reference to the crab. I'm hoping to make something along the lines of the Wario icon background from Ryumaru, but that is less set in stone than other things.
The main thing that I started today was filtering down potential candidates for the background music for my theme from the OST. This is probably one of the more loathsome things to do as I can't watch anime/youtube and need to pay attention to the music itself. Hopefully I can harvest the sfx from Bakemonogatari Portable (a psp game) which would save me from having to hunt for sfx within the OST tracks like I did with Nisekoi.
Amazingly enough there are a number of different songs that I think might actually work quite well and fit the theme...though there are also a large number of songs that just don't match or are songs for other characters. This makes narrowing down the song kind of a long and tedious process within itself requiring sustained focus from anywhere between an hour to a couple of hours. So pretty much it's listening to excerpts of songs for a short while, skip to the next song, delete/save previous, maybe read on the side a little while listening.
Overall though, it's boring as shit until I actually come across a song that sounds pretty good. For these kinds of themes, I like to gravitate towards songs that are either more mellowed out songs or those "slice of life" styled songs with a little bit of energy. Thankfully, only 74 more songs out of the original 800-900+ to finish my first pass through all of the songs.
In terms of actual discussion though, there isn't much on that topic. I did give some tools from photoshop a try (the patch and spot heal brush tools) in order to assist in removing Senjougahara's existence from the picture. Patch in particular was helpful, though not all that different from what I could have done with GIMP. If there were one plus the patch tool had was that the GIMP method would have required some smudging and other tricks beyond just a copy paste whereas the PS tool had an algorithm to do that part (not that it always did well at it :/). Other than that, I remade a lot of the fence to hide the mess and I'll still need to mess with it in order to make the fence loop properly.
On the topic of looping, I also need to work on the clouds to make them loop as well which should be...fairly simple actually. Much more so than the tweaks I'm planning to do to the fence to make ends meet.
With the background aside, I am still planning on going ahead with the folder icon shirt, and the icon background will probably be a reference to the crab. I'm hoping to make something along the lines of the Wario icon background from Ryumaru, but that is less set in stone than other things.
The main thing that I started today was filtering down potential candidates for the background music for my theme from the OST. This is probably one of the more loathsome things to do as I can't watch anime/youtube and need to pay attention to the music itself. Hopefully I can harvest the sfx from Bakemonogatari Portable (a psp game) which would save me from having to hunt for sfx within the OST tracks like I did with Nisekoi.
Amazingly enough there are a number of different songs that I think might actually work quite well and fit the theme...though there are also a large number of songs that just don't match or are songs for other characters. This makes narrowing down the song kind of a long and tedious process within itself requiring sustained focus from anywhere between an hour to a couple of hours. So pretty much it's listening to excerpts of songs for a short while, skip to the next song, delete/save previous, maybe read on the side a little while listening.
Overall though, it's boring as shit until I actually come across a song that sounds pretty good. For these kinds of themes, I like to gravitate towards songs that are either more mellowed out songs or those "slice of life" styled songs with a little bit of energy. Thankfully, only 74 more songs out of the original 800-900+ to finish my first pass through all of the songs.
